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PHYSICIST

Vladimir Shukhov

1853 - 1939

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method. Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Shukhov has received more than 189,158 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Vladimir Shukhov is the 334th most popular physicist (down from 325th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from Russia (down from 529th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 334 out of 717. Before him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, August Kundt, Félix Savart, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Leopold Infeld. After him are George Francis FitzGerald, Moritz von Jacobi, Manfred von Ardenne, Karl Guthe Jansky, Shuji Nakamura, and Walter A. Shewhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 31. Before him are Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Vladimir Korolenko, Flinders Petrie, and Louise Abbéma. After him are Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Sophia Perovskaya, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Roberto Ferruzzi, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. Among people deceased in 1939, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 37. Before him are Otto Wels, Norman Bethune, Hans Langsdorff, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Ambroise Vollard, and S. P. L. Sørensen. After him are Gerardo Machado, Konstantin Korovin, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 577 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), and Alexander Belyaev (1884). After him are Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Nikolai Medtner (1879), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Irina Rodnina (1949), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), and Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 16. Before him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Ilya Frank (1908), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Andre Geim (1958), and Yuri Oganessian (1933). After him are Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Vladimir Fock (1898), Yulii Khariton (1904), Emil Wiechert (1861), and Yuri Orlov (1924).

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